. . . and then I scripted a Hamlet-Gilbert & Sullivan crossover. I need to find some other way of making jokes that doesn't rely on two disparate fandoms colliding and/or taking cheap shots at musical theatre*. It's too easy.

*G & S are probably the most likable, unoffending creators of all musical theatre, so really they don't deserve my ( Read more... )

Must not write Hamlet/Discworld crossover comic. Must not write Hamlet/Discworld crossover comic. Must not write Hamlet/Discworld crossover comic.

Must. Not. Write. Hamlet. Discworld.

Must. Typefet. Things.

Oh, hell.

It wrote itself.

. . .

Have I mentioned that I've got a dozen Hamlet comic scripts of varying degrees of badness waiting for ( Read more... )

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To short row or to not short row, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the garment to suffer the slings and arrows of a too-tight bindoff, or to take knitting needles against a sea of stitches and by slipping them, end them? To bind off, to decrease-no more; et cetera and so forth ( Read more... )

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark:
Cat person or dog person?

DISCUSS.

How can you take the climactic scene in Hamlet, play it flat and then, four hours later, drop the same scene into RIP Ros & Gil and have it be an effing SHOWSTOPPER ( Read more... )

I am returned from squeeing at The Revenger's Tragedy like a mad squeeful thing specializing in squee. So brilliant, especially their cross-gender casting . . . the incredible degree of poise necessary to pull off a black comedy . . . the blinged out New Romantic/Clockwork Orange aesthetic for the villains (which would be, er, nearly everyone) and ( Read more... )

Every once in a while, I have to stop and remind myself that all of Goodreads is not interested in what plays I have on my shelf. But, oh-! Josette Simon is in my copy of The White Devil! I might have squeed a little, out loud and wondered if she is doomed to wear off-the-shoulder ensembles for the rest of her acting career.

Reviewers admired ( Read more... )

Help, help! Project Gutenberg doesn't seem to have either The Revenger's Tragedy or The Changeling among their e-texts (for that matter, they don't seem to have ever heard of Thomas Middleton). Neither does my local library.

Any intrepid soul know where I can find [electronic] copies of the scripts?

Hurrah! Tickets are officially reserved for the first installment of the BYOC† fest! The Changeling and The Revenger's Tragedy are set to be a double feature for March 14th. (Second installment is, of course, a double feature of Hamlet and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead in April.) lilly_rose and I are giddy with anticipation. As one is to see Jacobean ( Read more... )